Tony Rodd

Anthony Norman Rodd or Tony Rodd (born August 24, 1940 ) is an Australian horticultural botanist and plant photographer.

Leionema sp. 'Colo River'

His main interest is the classification and nomenclature of ornamental plants. He worked for many years at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney . In 2000 discovered Rodd one occurrence of the 1960s no longer detected species of the genus Leionema from the family of Rutaceae (Rutaceae), which up to the award of a valid taxon named after its locality working name Leionema sp. 'Colo River' wears.

Rodd is the co-author of books on palm trees and rainforest gardens. He has written articles for the Australian Encyclopedia and The Ultimate Book of Trees & Shrubs , among others . He was also involved as chief advisor in the English-language original edition of the Botanica plant lexicon .

As a plant photographer, he created his own archive of plant slides, from which over 2000 pictures have already been published in books. He is also involved in the creation of a database on plants introduced to Australia early on.

Works

• Leo Meier, Penny Figgis, JG Mosley, Tim F. Flannery, Tony Rodd: Australia's wilderness heritage . Weldon Pub. in association with Australian Conservation Foundation , Sydney, Chicago 1988, ISBN 0-947116-54-0 .
• Alec Blombery, Tony Rodd: An Informative, Practical Guide to Palms of the World. Their Cultivation, Care & Landscape Use . Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1992 (201 pp.).
• Tony Rodd (Ed.): Firefly Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs. Illustrated AZ of Over 7000 Plants . 2001, ISBN 1-55209-603-3 (912 pages).
• Geoff Bryant, Tony Rodd: The Plant Finder. The Right Plants for Every Garden . Firefly Books Limited, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55407-265-1 (992 pages).
• Tony Rodd, Jennifer Stackhouse: Trees. The Macmillan visual guide . Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney 2007, ISBN 978-1-4050-3847-8 (304 pages).

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• Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica: The ABC of Plants. 10,000 species in text and images . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003, therein p. 5 ..

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Species information ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney .